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Story of a free dating site that makes $300k a month from Google Adsense.

Posted on 24 March 2006 by Lord Brar

I just stumbled across a thread on a forum about one Markus Frind who makes $300k a month from Adsense from a free dating site, that he operated, called PlentyofFish.com.

According to Mr. Frind, keeping the site fast and running is one of his smallest issues. The bigger issues that he faces are –

1. Approving and editing 20,000 images/day
2. BLocking 1000 nigerian russian scams, escorts etc per day.
3. Blocking fake accounts, trouble makers etc.
4. 100k+ edits/modications/day
5. Approx. 10% of yahoo’s and the industries total signups are scams escorts etc. I’d guess these guys steal on the order of $100-400 million per year from the industry.

And how exactly does he manage all of this? Automation.

That’s extremely interesting and inspiring. I think I need to get my butt off and start working more seriously on project codename Pulse!

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joftech Says:
April 27th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
Markus is a hero to some at http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89 and to some he’s…

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I will let the author set the scene:

It was back in Oct 2005.

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